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    Seventh Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI'94)
                       "Sowing the Seeds for the Future"

                         POST-GRADUATE STUDENT SESSION

             A unique opportunity for post-graduate students in AI
               to discuss their research with eminent scientists.

                            CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

                  Conference dates: 21 - 25 November 1994

                             Proudly sponsored by 
                Microsoft Institute (principal sponsor), IBM, 
        Sun Microsystems, Australian Computer Society, and Department of
            Mathematics, Statistics, and Computing Science (UNE).

                                   Hosted by
           Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computing Science
                          The University of New England
                              Armidale, N.S.W., 2351
                                   AUSTRALIA


The Conference
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AI'94 is the Seventh Australian Joint Conference on Artificial
Intelligence. AI'94 is conducted under the auspices of the Australian
Computer Society's National Committee for Artificial Intelligence and
Expert Systems. The theme of the conference is "Sowing the Seeds for the
Future". AI'94 will be hosted by The Department of Mathematics, Statistics,
and Computing Science at The University of New England, between Monday 21st
November and Friday 25th November 1994. 

The Post-Graduate Students Session
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A pre-conference Post-Graduate Students Session is scheduled on the 22nd
November 1994. This session is specifically organised for all the
Post-Graduate Research Students in Australian Universities, who are doing
research in Artificial Intelligence.

The AI'94 Organising Committee has secured three world renowned scientists
in Artificial Intelligence, as keynote speakers. We have also arranged for
them to participate on panel sessions in the Post-Graduate Students
Session.  All participating students will get the opportunity to discuss
various aspects of their research and find out the latest developments in
Artificial Intelligence,  in an informal atmosphere with these three
keynote speakers. This will provide a unique opportunity for research
students to discuss their work with internationally  renowned scientists.

The Keynote Speakers
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Professor Wolfgang Wahlster, University of Saarbruecken, Germany.
Professor Wahlster is a Professor of Artificial Intelligence in the 
Department of Computer Science at the University of Saarbruecken, Germany 
where he currently serves as a Scientific Director of the German Research 
Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI). Since 1975 he has been working 
in the field as a principal investigator in various language projects, 
including HAM-ANS, WISBER, SC, XTRA, VITRA and WIP.   He has published more
than 100 technical papers on natural language processing.  His current
research includes intelligent multimodal interfaces, user modeling, natural
language scene description, intelligent help systems, and deductive  plan
recognition and generation.  Prof. Wahlster is on the editorial boards of
various international journals and book series such as Artificial
Intelligence, Applied Artificial Intelligence, User Modeling and
User-adapted Interaction, Symbolic Computation and the MIT-ACL series.  He
is a AAAI Fellow and a recipient of the Fritz Winter Award, one of the most
prestigious awards for engineering sciences in Germany, for his research on
cooperative user interfaces. Prof. Wahlster served as the Conference Chair
for IJCAI-93 in Chambery and the Chair of the Board of Trustees of IJCAII
from 1991 -1993.

Professor Katia Sycara, Carnegie Mellon University, USA.
Professor Sycara is a Research Scientist in the School of Computer Science 
at Carnegie Mellon University.  She is also Director of the Enterprise
Integration Laboratory.  She is directing and conducting research aimed at
developing decision support systems for integrating organisational decision
making.  Her doctoral research contributed to the definition of the
case-based reasoning paradigm.  She has been Principal Investigator of
various government and industry funded research (e.g. distributed
scheduling, concurrent engineering, enterprise integration, case-based
engineering design, crisis action planning). Prof. Sycara is the author of
a  book on manufacturing and over 70 technical papers dealing with
negotiation,  distributed problem solving, case-based reasoning,
integration of case-based  reasoning with other problem solving methods,
and constraint-based reasoning.  She is the Area Editor for AI and
Management Science for the journal "Group  Decision and Negotiation" and on
the editorial board of "AI in Engineering" and "Concurrent Engineering:
Research and Applications". She is a member of AAAI, ACM, IEEE, and the
Institute for Management Science (TIMS).

Professor John F. Sowa, State University of New York, USA.
Professor Sowa is the author of the book Conceptual Structures, which  in
the past ten years has led to a world-wide movement of people who are
using, implementing, and extending the theory of conceptual graphs. He had
been working at IBM for 30 years on various aspects of computer systems
design and development, especially artificial intelligence and
computational linguistics. Now, he is teaching, writing, and working on
standards for conceptual schemas with the American National Standards
Institute (ANSI) and the International Standards Organization (ISO).

Invitation to Participate
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Only Post-Graduate students attending the conference are invited to this
special session. If you would like to participate in this session, please
email an one-page abstract which:

       *        describes  your research in Artificial Intelligence and
       *        lists the issues you would like to raise

to the following electronic mail address, not later than 1st October 1994:

                      debenham@socs.uts.edu.au

All abstracts received will be forwarded to those who respond.

Correspondence
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All enquires regarding Post-Graduate Student Session  (AI'94) should be
address to:

                       Professor John Debenham
                    School of Computing Sciences
                      University of Technology
                        Sydney, N.S.W., 2007
                              AUSTRALIA

                 E-mail: debenham@socs.uts.edu.au

                       Fax:    +61-2-330 1807